Journal
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
Volume 36, Issue 6, Pages 2187-2206Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22764
Keywords
functional MRI; resting-state; tools; objects; scenes; parahippocampal place area; hemispheric asymmetry; lateralization; concepts; localization
Funding
- National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Division of Intramural Research
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One of the most robust and oft-replicated findings in cognitive neuroscience is that several spatially distinct, functionally dissociable ventral occipitotemporal cortex (VOTC) regions respond preferentially to different categories of concrete entities. However, the determinants of this category-related organization remain to be fully determined. One recent proposal is that privileged connectivity of these VOTC regions with other regions that store and/or process category-relevant properties may be a major contributing factor. To test this hypothesis, we used a multicategory functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) localizer to individually define category-related brain regions of interest (ROIs) in a large group of subjects (n=33). We then used these ROIs in resting-state functional connectivity MRI analyses to explore spontaneous functional connectivity among these regions. We demonstrate that during rest, distinct category-preferential VOTC regions show differentially stronger functional connectivity with other regions that have congruent category-preference, as defined by the functional localizer. Importantly, a tool-preferential region in the left medial fusiform gyrus showed differentially stronger functional connectivity with other left lateralized cortical regions associated with perceiving and knowing about common toolsposterior middle temporal gyrus (involved in perception of nonbiological motion), lateral parietal cortex (critical for reaching, grasping, manipulating), and ventral premotor cortex (involved in storing/executing motor programs)relative to other category-related regions in VOTC of both the right and left hemisphere. Our findings support the claim that privileged connectivity with other cortical regions that store and/or process category-relevant properties constrains the category-related organization of VOTC. Hum Brain Mapp 36:2187-2206, 2015. (c) Published 2015. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.
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